This is a strange development from his older bomb pieces. His work from 1993 entitled Time Bokan depicts a scary white mushroom cloud with a skull shape as the cap on a fluorescent pink background. Upon further inspection, it is evident that the eyes of this cloud are actually made up of Murakami's signature over-happy flowers. It is named after an anime by the same name, which ended every episode with an enormous explosion. The flowers themselves are hopeful images implying the possibly happy outcomes of the explosions, as they helped explode Japan's art world into something new (McCutcheon).